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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 14 Jun 15 - 10:20 PM Yeah... me too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 15 Jun 15 - 02:26 AM Awww, sweet friends, how like immortality it is to know you are there! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Jun 15 - 10:50 AM Build yourself a Tardis, Amos, and give it a go! I'm dog-sitting my friend Susie's pack of four red female pooches this week. So far I've got them calmed down at mealtime - they aren't crowding me now because they know there is no food until they sit and I hold their collar. After a suitable period, I point at the bowl and give the command "eat!" that they have mastered perfectly. By the time Susie arrives back home I hope to have them all sitting together in the same room and waiting to eat ONLY their own food when I tell them all "eat." Like I do with my pack of three. That alone will earn me the cash she paid me to feed her dogs. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 15 Jun 15 - 11:58 AM I built a TARDIS a couple of weeks ago. Well... Actually, it's a small storage shed for garden tools. But it looks like a TARDIS and if I ever get a hankering to visit unknown star systems, escape marauding Daleks, or pay Gluon a surprise visit, it'll probably do the job. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 15 Jun 15 - 05:00 PM I bought a TARDIS on Ebay next week. It arrived last week and I don't have to pay for it until the end of next month. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 15 Jun 15 - 06:17 PM Fun conversation of the day: "Hello?" "Hallo, saiiiir, this is Rajo from "Windows TEchnical Department." "Oh, Fuck you, you bullshit artist! Why don't you get a real job?" End of conversation |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Gluon Date: 15 Jun 15 - 07:14 PM Quark! Translation: "TARDIS? We don't need no steenking TARDIS!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Jun 15 - 09:45 AM I dragged that Window Tech Support conversation out a little longer, just to hear him salivate: "Oh, which computer in the house would that be? Can you tell what room it's in so I can be sure?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 16 Jun 15 - 05:18 PM Your computer is at risk. Oh no. What should I do? We can save your computer. How? Please, go to www.****.com as soon as possible and ask for our highly trained technicians to save your computer. What was that address? www.****.com Are you sure? Yes, it's www.****.com I just tried it and it says the website cannot be displayed. You must try it again to save your computer from a very serious virus. Oh. Okay. I am on the website now. What should I do? The technician will tell you what to do. But, won't you stay on the line to help me talk to the technician? No, I have to inform other people about this very serious problem. Well then, I guess you had better fuck off and go do that. Yes, I must go to help other people. Okay then... fuck off. I wish I had recorded it on my digital recorder. DRAT! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 16 Jun 15 - 05:28 PM Tom Mabe does these skits. Set up? I dunno. The radio station that aired this says he just hits the 'record' when they call. My fav. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 16 Jun 15 - 11:37 PM He os pure nach'l genius, that Tom Mabe. Love it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 17 Jun 15 - 09:44 AM Yes, I'm still alive on the foggy Sheepshead Peninsula! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 18 Jun 15 - 12:59 AM Bereft of common knowledge, forlorn, remote And then to call back to your friends How wonderful you are so fasr from them Is a great conceit, sir Unworthy of The sons of Mom. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST, ^*^ Date: 18 Jun 15 - 01:56 AM Does this moniker make me look fat? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 18 Jun 15 - 08:14 AM No, it actually makes you look undernourished. This moniker would make you look fat: ()*() |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 18 Jun 15 - 08:35 AM What about this monocle... Q |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 18 Jun 15 - 06:48 PM Found an old kitchen session tape whilst cleaning. Wonderful! I would make an audio to post on Vimeo but there are some very raunchy parts, as we were want to do back in the day. Chris and I did a delightful duet of whistle and Hran and his rendition of And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda ended the session (for me, that is... next to last, of course as there is only one song that ends a kitchen session properly) with me cryin. Better than Bogle or anyone else. Sigh. I miss the old days. Chris is now a big ass jet pilot for a major airline. Last I heard from him were pics of him at a big and fancy hotel in the UAE. Them Arabs know how to party! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 19 Jun 15 - 01:37 AM It's easier when you are rolling in petrodollars. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 19 Jun 15 - 10:58 AM It's a foine song indeed, Sir Gnu. One of Bogle's best. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 20 Jun 15 - 12:05 AM Awright, lasses, laddies and otherwise of MOAB, what the fecking 'ell is on then with this? Just tell me how it might come to be that so many fine ande vital minds should be dumfounded at one fell swoop by a tawdry half-baked chain of coincidences and minor malevolence? I ask you! Wherefore the silence? Howfor the negligence of our glorious chambers of gilded bullpucky in the sacred mansion of Mom? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST, ^*^ Date: 20 Jun 15 - 01:00 AM A shadow was cast upon MOTHER, and briefly, all of Mudcatland, but has since been repulsed. MOM MOAB'll get her groove back soon. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 20 Jun 15 - 06:40 AM It's almost Solstice and the weather is absolutely splendiferous! Yesterday, rain and 14C until about 2PM, and then sun and 17C for the high. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 20 Jun 15 - 06:50 AM As we wax crescent... Today Mainly sunny. Fog patches dissipating early this morning. High 22. UV index 8 or very high. Tonight Partly cloudy. Low 10. Sun, 21 Jun High 22. Night Rain. Low 10. Mon, 22 Jun Periods of rain. High 13. Night Cloudy. Low 8. Tue, 23 Jun Cloudy. High 16. Night Periods of rain. Low 11. Wed, 24 Jun Periods of rain. High 14. Night Cloudy periods. Low 8. Thu, 25 Jun A mix of sun and cloud. High 20. Night Cloudy periods. Low 9. Fri, 26 Jun A mix of sun and cloud. High 22. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 20 Jun 15 - 02:02 PM You should spend less time waxing your crescent, my friend, and more on finding a full DIana. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 20 Jun 15 - 02:43 PM Diana? We don't need no stinking Diana's! Besides, Diana wouldn't give me the time of day. Even the slutty one. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 21 Jun 15 - 10:29 AM Wax a crescent, miss a moon! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 21 Jun 15 - 04:07 PM The Shannon flows easy down through the center of Ireland, an unbroken path of kindly waters (mostly) from Belleek in the north all the way to Killaloe in the south and on to the delta. This summer I am going to explore some part of it for a week, stopping in at villages and pubs and rising with the sun (if I can) to follow the river's path. This is an easy slow-moving sort of vacation but I think it will be just grand. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST, *^* Date: 21 Jun 15 - 04:22 PM gnu's next Diana is going to have to whack him upside the head with the Golden Bough to get his attention. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 21 Jun 15 - 05:32 PM That will surely shake the golden apples! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 21 Jun 15 - 06:58 PM I go away and this place falls apart. Well, I'm back now, see? So shape up! And the Shannon ain't got no delta -- look at a map. To my annoyance I missed Shame with an icy BM when we flew over Blind River. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 21 Jun 15 - 09:10 PM 10PM. 10C. Pissin down rain. I am LOVIN it! I shall sleep soundly... until 4AM when the fuckin big garbage trucks that remove garbage from the back of the strip small next to the dead end street I live on break the noise bylaws. Pepsi Landry? Nah, he won't do nuthin unless I name the companies in a formal complaint... date, time, company, proof... such are City Counsellors here in Moncton. Apparently, they are scared of the Mafia. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 21 Jun 15 - 09:12 PM ANything to be right, I suppose, Sir R. Follow the Shannon down past Limerick to where the shores of Ballybunion gaze across the water at Kilbaha, and the Shannon empties herself into the sea. It's a mouth, if not precisely a delta. More a capital "D" than an ∂, if you see what I mean. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,Mr R Date: 21 Jun 15 - 10:06 PM English is a precise language and should be used with precision. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 21 Jun 15 - 10:25 PM Whilst in Limerick, I hope you paid homage to Garryowen and the graves of my forefathers and foremums. Oaks was by recently and did so. Oh! For those not familiar... http://carasmusic.com/ |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jun 15 - 11:04 PM Did you know that deltas can be far inland and still be deltas? There is land in the northeastern portion of Louisiana that is actually considered to be part of the Mississippi River delta. It isn't downstream by the mouth. Same with the Nile. It's way upstream that is considered "delta," distinct from Mouth. You may be confusing rivers with other deltas and mouths that are sometimes much closer together . . . |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 21 Jun 15 - 11:36 PM Oh, certainly; I stand corrected. As one who'se mouth is firmly lodged a good way up his delta, I am sure Rapp is correct! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST,HRH Rapparee Date: 22 Jun 15 - 09:15 AM Woke up this morning Drank me some uisce, Got me them Shannon River Southern Ireland County Clare Delta bluuuueeees!!!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 22 Jun 15 - 04:23 PM I am in the US of A. Indiana, to be precise. Tomorrow I will be home in God's Country. I saw sheep, horses, cows, stone walls, and lots of green. I also spent enough for Ireland to graciously pay off Greece's debt and still continue for twenty more years. The bills are starting to come in. Pray for me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: GUEST, ^*^ Date: 22 Jun 15 - 05:11 PM Perhaps Pat will offer to create quilt works-of-art to sell to defray some of those costs. Have the boxes of fabric arrived safely? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 22 Jun 15 - 08:26 PM 13C for a high with RAIN today! Temps for the coming week about 20C. Usually, over the past 20 years, we'd be in the 30s now. Thank you, Dog! Good Dog! Yes you are! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 23 Jun 15 - 03:07 PM Toasty and bright in beautiful Southern California! Light sea breezes curling over the shoreline hills, dog happily asleep in the bushes. Life is SO interesting! :D |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: gnu Date: 23 Jun 15 - 07:41 PM 14C, rain and 25-35 kph wind here. I win! |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 23 Jun 15 - 09:21 PM Temps down as low as -62F, winds, well, I don't know how high they were, but high! Anyway, I'm back in sunny, beautiful, blue-sky-dappled-with-white-clouds, Idaho. The first box arrived last week; there is another awaiting pickup or redelivery. Pat doesn't sell her quilts; they are held in a Sacred Place Of Trust to await Their Call, except for Project Linus and Quilts of Valor. I sold some of the family plate to finance this trip and now we are eating off of paper towels. It was, however, well worth it. One place we did visit was Dangle, County Concealedcarry, the ancestral home (if such a term can be so applied) of the notorious McBrides of Blind River. While nearly all of the place is a ruin, as you can see some of Shame's family still lives there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Stilly River Sage Date: 23 Jun 15 - 11:07 PM Hot and muggy in my neck of the woods. Had to get up early to mow before the heat stroke temperatures kicked in. Rap, that image was so . . . so . . . accurate, yet unkind at the same time. Shane has feelings. Somewhere. I suspect. Maybe. Well, in theory they're there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Ebbie Date: 24 Jun 15 - 02:37 AM Yesterday's Juneau skies were hazy but with no apparent cause. We don't have industry nor do we have farms. Tonight for the first time I smell the aftermath of the wildfires raging in British Columbia or maybe also in the Yukon Territory. 'Tain't nice- it's acrid with tones of char. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 15 - 04:33 AM It was so hot here yesterday that the tomatoes in our garden stewed themselves right on the vine. No cooking required. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 15 - 06:42 AM The cab that was to take us to the house yesterday was late (it overheated) so I was able to adjust to the heat a bit. I saw a fire hydrant chasing a dog and the guy who runs the barbecue joint across the street (lousy barbecue, by the way) was carrying the ribs outside for a few minutes to cook in the sunshine. The air conditioning at the courthouse apparently had a literal meltdown and the bailiffs were keeping things cool by using subpoenas as fans in the courtrooms. There is a police order against heated arguments,too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 24 Jun 15 - 10:43 AM In contrast to yesterday's 100°F swelter, today's weather is cloudy with intermittent light rain and only 73°F. What a difference a day makes. The down side is that cooler temperatures make it much more difficult to make up lies about how hot it is, and it's not raining enough to make up lies about flooding. But it'll probably rain enough to provide for a healthy mosquito hatch in a few days, and mosquitoes are always good for a lie or two. |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Amos Date: 24 Jun 15 - 11:03 AM Here in Southern California, the heat is making people crazy and driving them to go naked. Back in winter, as I recall, it was a bit chillier, you know, and some folks wore sweaters, but the cold weatherand the rains and fog also, strangely enough, drove some people crazy and made them go naked. Things got better in the Spring, though--it became pleasant and balmy, light warm breezes blessed the land and made green things spring forth and bright blooms of flowering plant celebrated the season of renewal. Pulses began to stir and people went a little crazy and went naked. I guess there's just no pleasing some folks, huh? |
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Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads From: Rapparee Date: 24 Jun 15 - 12:31 PM Naked. Some folks got naked here last winter and run around outdoors. We used them to hold the street lanterns until the warm weather arrived and they started to droop a tad but not too much, so we froze 'em up again and will reuse them next winter. Most folks who get naked and run around outdoors in the winter can be reused for three or four winters iffen we're careful and don't use 'em up too fast. |
